Can companies successfully plead poverty to DG Comp?
Monday, 22 November 2010
Ron Knox
Featured In: EU Cartel Survey
While companies for years have been asking for reductions in fines because of their inability to pay, it took a global financial meltdown to convince the European Commission to begin accepting them.
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Contents
- EU cartel fines - raw data, patterns and trends
- Is DG Comp more likely to raise a fine than to lower it?
- Are smaller companies hit harder by DG Comp cartel fines?
- EU cartel fines - an analysis of the largest fines
- Does DG Comp unfairly target companies from certain countries?
- Is leniency crucial to DG Comp investigations?
- Can companies successfully plead poverty to DG Comp?
- A guide to the data and our methodology
- Poverty trap
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